Wages are growing in the U.S., if you are in one of the few industries that desperately need workers. For everybody else, wages are stuck in the mud. WSJ's Jonathan House joins MoneyBeat.

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... I ... in mm mm ... wages are growing in the U S this year and one of the few industries that desperately needs workers for everybody else which is a stock of the mind and don't look like they're going to get out of there anytime soon ... jobs after this from Washington with a page one story in The Wall Street Journal today Jonathan hell are you ... I know I know we work with our our wages are doing great were clearly ... in one of those few industries with a teenage workers ... what what what's the split go here but the move to North Dakota to get a wage increase ... well okay so in five years into an economic recovery has been hurting week people are looking for signs of of of takeout ... on this and some people think that wages which are showing some faint signs of a pickup ... could be out of the signaling a turning point in in the recovery ... so that there are few industries that as you say are are showing stronger wage growth ... on both the overall pick in the pictures still pre ... operative me ... yet ... I'm not all of this because any wages is a very big L on the speedy economy ... I know that ... well in the last year so you see wages slowly outpacing inflation is low is inflation is ... of but there's not a lot of ways of Leicester in one of those industries ... BL all oil fields in North Dakota truckers you mention a couple the new top a few of them ... why are wages growing five years after this recovery started ... well it's it's it's another symptom of of of the weekend economic recovery so there's no a lot of slack still The and the andthe in the labor market ... on high employment rates ... on which is sorta gets to a debate about what the big difference on measures of unemployment are saying ... ALM so I'm on the one hand ... on ... the the main employer unemployment VIP ages at six point seven percent which is high by historical standards ... although some people think that that ... under state Sunday the amount of slack ... because ... there are a lot of those are long-term unemployed that might never return to labor market ... on and then some people think that it is overstates because aam a lot of people ... aam ... are are are are perhaps ... she should be working about but they're not at the ball pit ... I just I wanna see some high wage growth for journalism of course ... the industry should I be looking at ... well if we listen we focus on several industries in the story on ... long haul trucking ... the construction workers working in the in the home building segment of the construction industry ... aam people working in the oil and gas industry ... in all basically comes down to supply them ... ALM so for example in construction ... are apt after the last housing bust a lot of those workers left the industry ... and now they're building a store and pick up again there's a shortage of workers so if it comes down to supply ... the ... height of the mess in Washington thank you very much ... thank you